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About FVE
Working Groups & Working Parties
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Working Groups may be drawn up if the need arises and play a key role in FVE decision making. They are appointed to deal with a particular subject and during a defined period. Experts are selected from nominations received from FVE members on the basis of CV’s.
FVE strives to ensure that the composition of the group is balanced in terms of geographical coverage and working fields.
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Curently FVE has the following Working Groups:
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Mandate:
This group which originated from the meat inspection working group has as aim to provide a critical and independent analysis of the food safety policy of the European Union and on broad food safety issues of Europe-wide concern. In particular they deal with the implementation of the new hygiene package, BSE/TSE control, zoonotic issues and meat inspection.
This Group was formed in July 2002 and revised latest in February 2006. It consists of 2 Working Groups: group 1 which is the core group and group 2 – the consultation group. The current composition is valid until February 2008. |
- Margareta Widell (Sweden - Chair)
- Cornelia Rossi-Broy (Germany)
- Henning Knudsen ( Denmark)
- Thierry Chambon (France)
- Gundega Micule (Latvia)
- Noortje Reeuwijk (The Netherlands)
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- Giancarlo Belluzzi (Italy)
- Sean O’Laoide (Ireland)
- Thomas Jemmi (Switzerland)
- Walter Holzhacker (Austria)
- Kenneth Clarke (UK)
- Jorunn Vormeland Dalen (Norway)
- Romano Zilli (Italy)
- Irfan Erol (Turkey)
- Kristina Lukoseviciute (Lithuania)
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Mandate:
The European Commission plans to revise Directive 93/119/EC (DA,
DE, EL, EN, ES, FI, FR,
IT, NL, PT, SV) on the protection of
animals at the time of slaughter and killing and to present a legislative
proposal in 2007. They will use as base the EFSA report of October
2004 (EN) and OIE guidelines on slaughter adopted in May
2005. Opinions and information’s coming from stakeholders such as
FVE will also be used as a base.
This group was formed in April 2006 for a period of two years and
consists of two Working groups; group 1 which is the core group
and group 2 the consultative group.
Their position paper is published on the European Commissions'
website (link)
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- Robert Huey (UK - Chair)
- Mohan Ray (UK)
- Cornelia Rossi-Broy (Germany)
- Elisiv Tolo (Norway)
- Anders Forslid (Sweden)
- Karen Von Holleben (Germany)
- Romano Zilli (Italy)
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- Ann Lindhagen (Sweden)
- Patrick Talty (Ireland)
- Charlie Mason (UK)
- John Fletcher (UK)
- Sam Mansley(UK)
- Michael Gneist (Austria)
- Roger Vosters (Belgium)
- Christophe Buhot (France)
- Heike Taubert (Switzerland)
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Mandate:
The group aims to draft a European Code of Conduct. Providers of veterinary services should follow ethical standards ensuring independence, impartiality, integrity, transparency, accountability and professional secrecy. This should ensure them to provide high quality services through competence and professionalism for benefit of improving the health and welfare of animals and people.
The European Code of Conduct shall also answer the request of the draft Directive on Services in the internal Market, which encourages professional originations to draw up, in accordance with Community law especially competition law , codes of conducts at Community level, such as regarding content and methods of commercial communication and t promote the quality of services – taking into account the specific nature of each profession.
The group was formed in September 2006.
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- Catherine Roy (France - Chair)
- Walter Winding (Austria)
- Jörg Peter Luy (Germany)
- Henrik Ericsson (Sweden)
- Jan Bernardy (Czech Republic)
- Lynne Hill (UK)
- Frank Gasthuys (observer EBVS)
- Stephen Ware (UK - alternate for Walter Winding)
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Mandate:
Transporting live animals over long distance is already for decades a great concern for animal welfare and still stays today. The working group on transport greatly contributed to the Regulation No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport. It also contributed to the abolishment of export refunds for live animals. After the adoption of the Regulation the group continues to work on implementation issues.
This long standing group was formed in 2001 and is still very active.
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- John Williams (UK - Chair)
- Romano Zilli (Italy)
- Alexander Rabitsch (Austria)
- Karen von Holleben (Germany)
- Johan Beck-Friis (Sweden)
- Marc Janssens (Belgium WVA – observer)
- Michael Düe (FEEVA – observer)
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Welfare Labelling |
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Mandate:
The mandate of the Animal Welfare Labelling working group is to assess
the issue of animal welfare labeling and try to develop a preliminary
discussion paper for FVE on this subject, mainly for EU legislators.
It is foreseen that the group will finalise its task before December
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Group 2 (observers) |
- Cornelia Rossi-Broy (Germany - Chair)
- Richard Weilenmann (Swiss - co-Chair)
- Alain Schonbrodt (Belgium)
- Alberto Brizzi (Italy)
- Stefan Gunnarsson (Sweden)
- Andreas Steiger (Switzerland)
- Rens van Dobbenburgh (Netherlands)
- Peter Jinman (UK)
- Craig Kirby (UK)
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- Rudy De Meester (Belgium)
- Giacomo Tolasi (Italy)
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Joint Education Committee |
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Mandate:
For many years, EAEVE together FVE with run a evaluation visit of veterinary teaching establishments. The objective of the Evaluation system is to help ensure a comparable level of veterinary training in Europe, as laid down by Directive 2005/36/EC (DA, DE, EL, EN, ES, FI, FR, IT, NL, PT, SV). To this end, the EAEVE and FVE arranges for teams of veterinary experts to carry out evaluation visits to veterinary schools and faculties in Europe.
After the visit, reports are submitted to the Joint Education Committee (JEC) consisting of members of EAEVE and FVE, who will then formally adopt the report. If a school has no category one deficiencies it can apply to be put on the "List of visited and approved faculties" (The positive list).
The Committees shall be appointed for a two-years term and may be re- appointed no more than twice. Not all members shall be changed at the same time.
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- Borut Zemljic (Slovenia) - FVE
- Hans Henrik Dietz (Denmark) - FVE
- John Williams (UK) – FVE
- Marcel Wanner (Switzerland) – EAEVE/Chair
- Stefano Romagnoli (Italy) – EAEVE
- Petr Horin (Czech Republic) – EAEVE
- Patrick Bénard (France) - EAEVE
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Committee for Veterinary Training |
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Mandate:
The three organisations the “European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education” (EAEVE), the “European Board for Veterinary Specialisation” (EBVS) and FVE all have a strong interest in the training of veterinarians in Europe. To coordinate their goals and actions, the boards of directors and executive committees of the three organisations meet regularly. For this purpose, 2 joint committees were developed. The first one is the Joint Education Committee (see above) which looks upon the evaluation reports. The second one, the European Coordinating Committee for Veterinary Training (previously Joint Policy Committee) has a more political remit; it can propose policies of joint interest, which relate to recognition of the professional - especially professional qualification, continuing development and specialisation, - to the three boards.
The Committees shall be appointed for a two-years term and may be re- appointed no more than twice. Not all members shall be changed at the same time.
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- Walter Winding (Austria – FVE President)
- Karin Ostensson (Sweden – FVE)
- Rémi Gellé (France – FVE)
- John Williams (UK - FVE)
- Marcel Wanner (Switzerland – EAEVE President)
- Stefano Romagnoli (Italy - EAEVE)
- Ljiljana Pinter (Croatie - EAEVE)
- Sjeng Lumeji (The Netherland - EBVS)
- Frank Gasthuis (Belgium – EBVS President)
- Jens Arnberg (Denmark - EBVS)
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